2009 Hyundai Santa Fe airbags problems

Filed Jan 21, 2025 · Airbags, Brakes · NC · crash · 4 injuries

On January 16,2025 I was driving my Hyundai Santa Fe on the freeway with my three children when the automatic brake system suddenly failed, causing me to lose control of the vehicle. As a result, we spun off the road, and the vehicle flipped four times, causing us multiple injuries. Additionally, due to a known recall involving the failure of the airbag deployment system, the airbags did not deploy during the crash. These combined defects caused me and my children to suffer significant injuries, including broken cervical spine. Broken thoracic spine and Broken Sternum. My daughter has a fractured spine and sternum. And both my sons have serious bruising and head trauma. Both the automatic brake system and the airbag system on this vehicle are part of existing recalls issued by Hyundai Motors. These failures directly contributed to the severity of our accident and the injuries we sustained

Filed Oct 31, 2023 · Airbags, Seat belts · OH

Took my car in for repair because I was told that my power steering pump and gaskets were bad. Upon further investigation it wasn’t neither. It was the power steering hose that goes from the power steering to the racket pinion. Both of the hoses had holes in them and were rusted out. Here Hyundai upgraded the power steering pump because of problems and I was never notified about the upgrade and you cannot purchase the hoses needed you have to purchase a whole new power steering pump that I don’t need. The airbag light is on and I couldn’t even order the airbag it was on back order when asked. The seat belt on the right passenger side in the back will not lock in place due to I don’t know what. Campaign 947 the under body corrosion treatment didn’t protect what it was suppose to causing my frame and control arms to go bad. I have had to replace upper and lower ball joints more than 4-5 times since I purchase this vehicle new from the dealership.

Filed Mar 2, 2023 · Airbags · TN

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Filed Jul 1, 2022 · Airbags · TX

Air bag light on by itself without any incident.

Filed Oct 1, 2021 · Airbags · AR

My vehicle shows diagnostic scan codes consistent with recalls that do include my vehicle's year, make, model, and trim, but does not include my VIN. I would like to have this safety hazard resolved, and it seems to me to be the responsibility of the maker.

Filed Jun 29, 2021 · Airbags · NJ · crash

Slowed down to pull into parking spot and suddenly car picked up speed and crash through a vacant store front. Car stopped after hitting a wall and moved what ever was on the other side of the wall. Air bags did not deploy driver of car was shaken up but no physical injuries. Car damaged towed to junk yard and insurer totaled vehicle.

Filed Dec 28, 2020 · Airbags · ID

The air bag light stays on while driving. Unknown cause of the problem. Recall was done prior to buying the car to my knowledge. But I assume that the part went out again.

Filed Jan 2, 2020 · Acceleration, Airbags · 43,000 miles · MA · crash · 1 injury

I was coming from food shopping, on august, 26, 2019 and was trying to leave out my parking spot. While me backing out, my vehicle accelerated backward and while I tried to stop my vehicle it tapped into a light pole. I was trying to get my self out of this weird situation. I switched gears to park my car, and my car accelerated forward slamming into a brick wall and also rubbing against it. My car then slowly started to back up not even letting me be able to break or switch gears. For the last time it accelerated forward side swiping a lady car and hitting the brick wall again. My air bags did not go off, leaving me with an concussion and also sever neck and head pain. This all happen so suddenly and randomly. I barely remembered what happened until seeing a video off of the camera at a near by gas station. This situation went from something weird happening into a very dangerous and scary situation. I contacted national consumers affairs hyundai motor vehicle, because my car had been totaled, I was left with hospital bills and also my insurance may go up, because of the whole situations. I thought I would have came to some closure when it came to them helping me out with my situation, but they told me they can't find nothing wrong with my car and there was no defect or anything. After sending these people pictures, the video, and even proof of me going to the hospital more than once,they made me feel like this was all my fault. I spoke to a "private" contractor from hyundai that was supposed to look into my car and also a specialist that didn't want to give me his last name while looking into my case. Also a lady from hyundai called me from a private number from the company. This all seem so weird to me as if they were scamming me when it came to a serious situation like this. I feel like hyundai is running fake investigations. I'm hoping the federal safety agency do something asap.

Filed Jun 14, 2019 · Airbags · TX

Air bag sensor. Air bag light on dash is illuminated. Mechanic stated needs to be replaced. Unsure if air bags will deploy or not.

Filed Mar 12, 2019 · Airbags · 92,700 miles · FL

The air bag light came on my console 2 days ago. I took it to a mechanic who ran a diagnostic on it and concluded it was the occupant classification system (ocs). I found out there was a recall on 07/25/2012 recal number 12v354000 for this exact problem. However, I was not the owner at that time. I called 2 hyundai dealerships nearby - countryside and st. Petersburg, fl who both told me they could not find any open recalls under my VIN number. This is unacceptable. Hyundai needs to accept all charges for the cost to repair this issue and it should be covered under the recall. As of now I am driving a vehicle that is unsafe because hyundai will not honor my vehicle!!!